"The Afterlives of Mestizaje: Hemispheric Anti-Blackness and Black Indigenous Life" Presented by Dr. Pablo José López Oro

On behalf of Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness and the Black Latinx Americas xLab, we are excited to welcome Dr. Pablo José López Oro for a presentation and workshop on his work-in-progress "The Afterlives of Mestizaje: Hemispheric Anti-Blackness and Black Indigenous Life". Dr. López Oro is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. This event will be held over Zoom.

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Dr. Pablo José López Oro is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. He teaches courses on Black Latin American and U.S. Black Latinx social movements, Black diaspora theories and ethnographies, and Black feminisms/queer theory. He is working on his first book manuscript, Hemispheric Black Indigeneity: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York, a transdisciplinary study analyzing oral histories, performances, social media, film, literary texts, and visual cultures to unearth the political, intellectual, cultural and spiritual genealogies of Garifuna women and subaltern geographies of Garifuna LGBTQ+ folks at the forefront of Garifuna transnational movements in New York City. Hemispheric Black Indigeneity offers new ways to approach questions on the multiple ways in which Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American descent queerly negotiate, perform, contradict and articulate their Black, Indigenous, and Latinx subjectivities.